The controlled assessment workspace for the AI age

Run in-class assessments and exams with the apps, files and websites students need, with or without AI. You decide what they can and cannot reach on their devices.

Trusted by institutions worldwide

"With Schoolyear, students can use bookkeeping software, visit the exam site, open and fill in an Excel file, and then write a report about it in Word. All in a secured session, without access to AI or outside resources."

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Harmen Frans Talstra
Advisor Educational Technology & IT

"The teachers are satisfied with the BYOD setup for their Moodle exams. Schoolyear saves us money in the sense that we do not have to have so many computer rooms anymore."

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Kicka Lindroos
IT Coordinator

"With Schoolyear, students can use a desktop application during an exam and we can make it AI-proof. This way, we can assess if students have the necessary knowledge themselves."

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Irene Blankers
Educational Advisor

"We had cases with our previous proctoring setup where we needed to look into whether we were dealing with a cheating case or not. The moment that you're conducting exams in Schoolyear, that is reduced heavily. This is saving us a lot of time."

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Vincent Meertens
Program Director BSc/MSc

"We can secure exams proactively instead of after the fact. This creates calm for students, clarity for teachers, and less hassle with the e-invigilators you no longer need."

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Lucas Vermeulen
Test Center Staff Member

"Schoolyear makes it possible to do skills assessments with the use of extra applications, like Rstudio, Excel and Matlab. Before, this was only possible with managed computers."

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Harald de Vries
Senior Consultant Learning Innovation

"We wanted to introduce safe and robust digital testing on campus. However, no combination of exam rooms had 800+ computers available at the same time. Schoolyear was the perfect and robust solution that we were looking for, as this allowed us to use the laptops of the students in regular exam rooms."

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Dennis den Ouden
Lecturer

"We sought a flexible solution for fraud prevention during exams on students' own laptops. Schoolyear allows us to use our educational spaces more flexibly and reduce the need for fixed PC rooms."

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Gerard Folkerts
Product Owner Digital Assessments

"Before the introduction of the Schoolyear, lots of eyes were needed to make sure students didn’t use search engines, chat apps, notes, or email."

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Derk Riesthuis
Project manager

Take control of any digital assessment

Run the quizzes you already have in your LMS and decide what students can and cannot reach while they answer.

Open book exams without opening up the entire internet. Allow exactly the resources you choose: course materials, selected websites, students' own notes and, if you want, an approved AI tool.

In-person essays, in the browser or a full word processor. You decide whether spellcheck, grammar suggestions or an AI writing tool belong in the assignment. Everything else stays out.

Let students solve accounting, finance and business cases in Excel. You see the formulas behind every number, and decide whether Copilot belongs in the assessment.

Let students analyze real datasets in SPSS, R or Stata. Keep AI assistants and add-ins out, or allow the one you see fit, while personal files stay out of reach.

Assess real coding skills in a real IDE, not with pen and paper. Turn autocomplete and AI assistants off to see what students write themselves, or on when working with them is part of the skill.

Let students build and test models in MATLAB, Simulink or Ansys. Give them the starter model and data they need, while unapproved add-ons and personal files stay out of reach.

One workspace.
You decide what's inside.

Educators choose the LMS, websites, files and software for each assessment themselves. Everything else stays blocked, without involving IT.

Set the conditions for a fair assessment

Should AI be part of the assessment?

That depends on your learning outcomes. Block AI when students must work on their own, or allow supervised AI when working with AI is part of the skill.

Two ways to approach AI

Block AI

To assess what students can do on their own

Allow supervised AI

To assess how students work with AI

Make room for different student needs

Turn on support tools like spellcheck, text-to-speech or a screen magnifier for the students who need them.

Examples of support tools

Spellcheck

For students with spelling difficulties, such as dyslexia

Text-to-speech

For students with reading difficulties

Screen magnifier

For students with low vision

Irene Blankers
Educational Advisor

"With Schoolyear, students can use a desktop application during an exam and we can make it AI-proof. This way, we can assess if students have the necessary knowledge themselves."

Vincent Meertens
Program Director BSc/MSc

"We had cases with our previous proctoring setup where we needed to look into whether we were dealing with a cheating case or not. The moment that you're conducting exams in Schoolyear, that is reduced heavily. This is saving us a lot of time."

Harmen Frans Talstra
Advisor Educational Technology & IT

"With Schoolyear, students can use bookkeeping software, visit the exam site, open and fill in an Excel file, and then write a report about it in Word. All in a secured session, without access to AI or outside resources."

Security model

Open by choice.
Closed by design.

When AI is built into browsers, apps, and operating systems, a traditional lockdown browser is no longer enough. Schoolyear uses five security layers to keep assessments open to the tools you allow and closed to everything else.

Respond
Verify
Isolate
Separate
Prevent
01

Prevent

Schoolyear replaces the student's desktop before the assessment starts. AI overlays, messaging apps, screen sharing, remote access: blocked, not detected afterwards.

02

Separate

Assessments run in a clean, purpose-built environment that students can’t customize, extend or bypass with browser tricks. The assessment never runs in the environment the student controls.

03

Isolate

Applications and files used during the assessment don’t run locally on the student’s device. They’re isolated from personal storage, cloud drives and local AI features.

04

Verify

When a restriction is triggered or a bypass is attempted, it’s logged and signalled in real time. You can always see whether the lockdown is intact, during the assessment and afterwards.

05

Respond

Bypass techniques keep evolving, so Schoolyear’s security is updated as soon as new ones emerge. Updates are deployed automatically, with no action needed from students or educators.

Compatible with your OS

Works on any device

No surveillance

Privacy by design

We secure the assessment by locking down the device, not by filming the student or their screen. Nothing is recorded, so there is no footage to store, review or leak.

No webcam recording

Anything outside the whitelist is blocked at system level. Cheating is stopped the moment it's tried, not spotted on a recording afterwards.

No screen recording

Students are not filmed or analyzed while they work. Less stress during the assessment, and no arguments afterwards about what a recording showed.

Works with the tools you already use

Gerard Folkerts
Product Owner Digital Assessments

"We sought a flexible solution for fraud prevention during exams on students' own laptops. Schoolyear allows us to use our educational spaces more flexibly and reduce the need for fixed PC rooms."

Dennis den Ouden
Lecturer

"We wanted to introduce safe and robust digital testing on campus. However, no combination of exam rooms had 800+ computers available at the same time. Schoolyear was the perfect and robust solution that we were looking for, as this allowed us to use the laptops of the students in regular exam rooms."

Kicka Lindroos
IT Coordinator

"The teachers are satisfied with the BYOD setup for their Moodle exams. Schoolyear saves us money in the sense that we do not have to have so many computer rooms anymore."

Frequently asked questions

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